Trainee Quantity Surveyor Degree Apprenticeship - North West
Level: 6
Employer: DALKIA ENGINEERING LIMITED
Location: 1 The Parklands
Kickstart your career as a Trainee Quantity Surveyor with our degree apprenticeship, where you'll develop skills in costing building designs, managing resources, and negotiating with partners. Graduate with a BSc (Hons) in Quantity Surveying and the opportunity to become an MRICS Chartered Surveyor. Apply today!
Duration: 5 Years
Expected start date: 07/09/2026
Hours per week: 36.5 hours
Wage: (Annually)
Job role includes
Below are some of the activities you will be involved in:
- Prepare monthly valuation applications in adequate time for inclusion within the main contract valuation
- Calculations of costs associated with contract variations
- Liaise with other staff and personnel, particularly in purchasing and contracts, on cost expenditure and management or recovery within the variation account
- Preparation and submission of the draft final account for the project
- Management of sub-contractor packages
- Liaise with appropriate personnel, (i.e. in Buying, Estimating, Contracts) and maintain good working relationships
- Undertake a range of general administrative and office-based tasks
- Learn how to use the company’s bespoke cloud-based system to manage projects' outturn costs and value
- To work safely in accordance with the company’s current health and safety policy and procedures
- To undertake any other duties that reasonably falls within the scope of the job
About employer
Dalkia Engineering deliver mechanical and electro-technical solutions across the UK’s built environment from initial design to project completion.
- The apprenticeship takes up to 5.5 years to complete, with 4 years of teaching and up to 18 months for end point assessment (EPA)
- The EPA is the RICS assessment of professional competency (APC), which is a mandatory part of the apprenticeship. The programme combines vocational skills and workplace practice with academic, research-rich learning
- The programme is delivered predominantly online (one day per week) with one day mandatory face-to-face teaching (campus day) at Northumbria University and two hybrid sessions (online or on at Northumbria University campus) per semester
- Regular progress reviews to discuss expected progress v actual progress/interventions/additional support
- Ongoing employment
- Further learning and development opportunities and continuous growth within the quantity surveying function
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
